Kr_300810_25. Get our daily newsletter: The Kona Residence by Belzberg Architects Back To Thumbnails ‹– Previous | Click here to view the full size image CONTEMPORIST is a celebration of contemporary culture, focused on architecture, design, art and travel.

The Marcus Beach House by Bark Architects. Bark Architects have designed the Marcus Beach House, located on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.

Full description after the photos…. The Marcus Beach House by Bark Architects The Marcus Beach house celebrates a natural, coastal setting providing its occupants with an inextricable relationship to the landscape and sensitive surrounding environment. The dwelling explores lightness, filtering natural breezes, layers of transparency and integrating indoor / outdoor spaces within dynamic patterns of light and shadow, being a simple frame to enable a contemporary sustainable lifestyle to unfold. Whilst feeling like a ‘beach house’ sited 250 meters away from Marcus Beach, the basic ‘pavilion’ plan was sketched out in the sand during an early site visit: a simple diagram of two pavilions placed either side of a venerable 100 year old Morton Bay Ash that takes centre stage to the scale, proportions and life of the house around it.

The Echo House by Kariouk Associates Task: To marry eighty-four years of history by integrating a contemporary, open and functional living space inside a 1924 landmark that overlooks the Rideau Canal. Project Challenge: The starting point for this renovation was a modest Victorian home in poor condition, whose rooms with small windows and dark interior spaces were separated from one another, as was typical of homes built in an era when privacy was a cultural priority. In another gesture to Victorian public decorum, the arrangement of the existing interior spaces reinforced the antiquated ideal that work life and family life should be kept distinct.
1105dwell by Dwell Development. The Nicholson Residence by MAC Interactive Architects.

House 6 by Marcio Kogan (Conteporist)
The Water-Cooled House by Wallflower Architecture + Design. Singapore based Wallflower Architecture + Design have completed the Water-Cooled House.

Full description after the photos…. The Water-Cooled House by Wallflower Architecture + Design Project Title: Water-Cooled House Location: Bukit Timah, Singapore Project Completion: 2009 Architect: Wallflower Architecture + Design (www.wallflower.com.sg) Design Team: Cecil Chee, Robin Tan & Sean Zheng Photographer: Albert Lim Project Description Hidden away from the road, the site is surrounded by a verdant screen of mature trees from adjacent properties. The concept developed for the home inverted planning and hierarchical norms common in local residential planning.
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Ballymahon Farmhouse by ODOS Architects. House in Buzen by Suppose Design Office. Here's another project from Japanese studio Suppose Design Office, this time a house in Buzen, Japan, where separate structures are connected under a glass canopy. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. Called House in Buzen, the wood-clad residence features courtyards and corridors where children can play under the glazed roof.
The Long Barn Studio by Nicolas Tye Architects. Bedfordshire office Nicolas Tye Architects set about building this new studio for themselves when the company outgrew a space in the director's home. Called The Long Barn Studio, the building takes the form of a glass box with larch-clad ends. The south facade features a series of 'pods', also clad in larch, that contain a library, reprographics area, toilets and meeting room.

Designed to house a team of up to twelve people, the design features Corten steel detailing and limestone flooring. It also incorporates a wind turbine, rainwater harvesting, reed-bed sewage treatment, compost facilities and a staff vegetable garden.
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The Ross Street House by Richard Wittschiebe Hand Architects. Carol Richard, founding partner of the Atlanta-based architecture firm Richard Wittschiebe Hand, has designed her own home in Madison, Wisconsin. Full description after the photos….

The Ross Street House by Richard Wittschiebe Hand Architects Carol Richard, founding partner of the Atlanta-based architecture firm Richard Wittschiebe Hand, returned home to Madison, Wisconsin last summer to build her house. “When I was a young architect,” says Carol, “I designed and built a house for myself in Atlanta and I’ve always wanted to build again and take advantage of the things I’ve learned over my career.”
House in Santander by A-cero Architects. A-cero Architects designed this house overlooking the Miera River near Santander, Spain.

Full description after the photos…. House in Santander by A-cero Architects The house is located on a 2.204m2 plot presenting a strong slope, with a difference of height of 17m in a 55m long terrain. The site is delimited by the access road on the South, neighbouring plots on the North and East sides and a stepped walkway in the West.
The Three Stones House by Nick Deaver. Architect Nick Deaver has designed the Three Stones house in Austin Texas. Full description after the photos….
Coffee Table 20. The Frick Residence by KRDB. KRDB, a design-build firm in Austin, Texas; designed this house for the artist Laurie Frick.
Mt. Bonnell Remodel by Mell Lawrence Architects. Parliament’s Office Interior Design. Parliament, a graphic design/marketing company in Portland, Oregon, have shared some photos of their office interior design with us. The design features a number of pieces made from salvaged and reclaimed materials, including salvaged pizza ovens, street signs, and wood from old crates, a barn and a church.

The Laidley House by Zack. Zack|de Vito Architecture have completed the Laidley House in San Francisco, California.
Old Bernal House by Feldman Architecture. Feldman Architecture have done a contemporary redesign and expansion on an 1860′s cottage in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood.
My Life in 80m² by Poliform. Italian furniture manufacturer Poliform has created an inspirational residential interior project called “My Life in 80m²” to show that the quality of a living space does not depend on the size.

Flow2 kitchen by Studio Gorm. Oregon designers John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong of Studio Gorm have designed a kitchen where waste products are used to grow plants. Drying dishes drip onto plants in terracotta containers.
House on Lot 23 by Juan Esteban Correa Elejalde. DREAM KITCHENS FOR EVERYONE.